I'll keep this one short because this post is very similar to my other post regarding the Incas. Here are a few pictures from Moray. Moray was thought to have been used by the Incas as an agriculture laboratory purely for the testing of how different crops would respond at different altitudes and temperatures. They build these nested circles and planted different crops at different levels to optimize their agricultural processes throughout their empire. Its hard to fully grasp the depth and width of these circles from these pictures. Per Wikipedia - The depth of the pits (the largest is about 30 m deep) creates a temperature gradient of as much as 15° C between the top and the bottom. As with many other Inca sites, it also has a very sophisticated irrigation system for providing the plants with water.
You look marvelous girlie. Keep posting, the pictures are amazing.
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Those are some pretty nifty circles and such. Marvelous what human ingenuity can do, right? Lookit that... how do ya irrigate when you're so close to the top of a mountain? Dang. Did ya get to go in the circles yerself -- it looks like there are some *TINY* people in the center of the one up there at the top of the post.
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